• We’ve had to live with convicted felon Donald Trump as President for six years (feels like 20, with COVID in between).
• America is going to livestream a public execution. Just like Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia. Oh yeah, and the to-be-executed man is in a wheelchair.
• A hurricane will hit Socal this weekend and drop a lot of rain. Downgraded to tropical storm when it hits land, but still.
• Software – an LLM, what everyone is calling AI – just solved 90 of the 500 most difficult mathematical problems. In a day.
• University of Kentucky has a damn fine football team.
• A year later, they’re still tearing up Galt Ave, working on a quarter mile sewer line.
• The Texas race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico is close. How could any sane person vote for Paxton?
• LeBron James is still an extreme pro athlete at age 41.
• The septuagenarian band Rush is still touring and killing it.
• Measles has made a huge comeback in the US because MAHA and MAGA idiots don’t trust science and vaccinations.
• The truth about who is in the Epstein Files is still hidden from the public.

It’s an astonishing world out there. Keeps it interesting, I suppose.